Grays Creek, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by D.N. Pardue



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From the book entitled "The Free State - A History and Place-Names Study
of Livingston Parish" by the members of the Livingston Parish American
Revolution Bicentennial Committee in cooperation with the Livingston 
Parish Police Jury and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission, 1976.  Reprinted by permission.  Dedicated to the memory of
Reuben Cooper and Raymond Riggs.

GRAYS CREEK, the next main drainage artery east of the Amite River in

Livingston Parish, rises in Section 21, T6S-R3E and flows into the Amite

just north of the river bridge in Port Vincent.

     Onc Oct. 18, 1775, the British government granted Joseph Blackwell

1000 acres of land "situated on the east side of the River Amite, about

three miles back of the said river on a creek called Mayo Gray's Creek..." (1)

     During the Revolutionary War, the Spanish commander Collel at 

Galveztown reported that trouble was brewing between the rival English

and Spanish posts on the Amite.  "On the tenth of the month, June (1779),

Meo Gre loaned a pirougue to an Englishman named Mr. Be ....." Collel 

wrote. (2)

     Gray's Creek is undoubtedly named for May Gray, or Meo Gre as the

Spanish would call him. -- James E. Minton

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(1) As told to Mrs. Anita Durand Buess by Mrs. Charles Nelson Durand and
Mr. John Noblet.
(2) 1895 Hardee's Official Map of Louisiana.

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